Tomen Foods WINE Division PROFILE

Business Activities

1) Turnover : approx. 1.3 billion yen

2) Sales Volume : approx. 100 thousands c/s

3) Our Wines:
− Import : from 5 overseas countries
(France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Chile
→ We have business relations with over 130 wine suppliers in all over the world.
− Number of Items: approx. 800
Most Prestigious Domaine Wines in all over France. Especially, we are regarded as one of the best importer in Japan for agency holders of prestigious domaines in Burgundy.

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• FRANCE
  
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  • Bourgogne
    
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    • Chablis Vignoble Dampt,
      
    • Nuits Pierre GELIN, Fourrier, Dujac, A.F. GROS, Gros Freres et Soeur, Michel GROS, Sylvain CATHIARD, Robert ARNOUX, Daniel RION, Cecil Tremblay, Jean-Yves Bizot, Paul Misset, Nicolas POTEL
      
    • Beaune Dubreuil FONTAINE, Michel Bouzereau, Michelot, Jean Boillot,Chandon de Briailles,Alain GRAS, Marc Morey, Thierry-Violot Guillemard
      
    • Chalonnaise et Maconnais Michel JUILLOT, Producteurs de Lugny, de la COLLONGE(Gilles NOBLET), Emilian Gillet, La Soufrandiere
      
    • Beaujolais Potel-Aviron, Paul Sapin
      
    
    
  • Champagne
    
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    • Montagne de Reims Francois Seconde, Henri Billiot, M.Maillart, Bérèche et Fils
      
    • Vallée de la Marne Gosset Brabant, J.M.Gobillard
      
    • Cote de Blancs Agrapart, Diebolt-Vallois, Robert Moncuit
      
    
    
  • Bordeaux
    
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    • Jean Descaves, Mähler Besse
      
    • Direct contact with many chaeaux
      
    
    
  • Languedoc Roussillon
    
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    • Clos Fantine, Donjon, Val d'Orbieu, Le Thou, Ravanes, Château du Jau, Le Temps des Cerises, Le Bout du Monde, Bioghetto.com
      
    
    
  • Rhône Valley
    
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    • Andre Peré, Rene Rostaing, Chateau de Trignon, Sénécheaux, Cave de Rasteau, Château des Roques, Trois Logis
      
    
    
  • Loire Valley
    
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    • Loge, Baumard, Nerleux, Richou, Delaporte, Ackerman Laurence, Catherine et Pierre Breton, Ferme de la Sansonnière, Michel Armand, L'Ange Vin
      
    
    
  • Others
    
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    • Henri Maire (Jura), Château de Rocquefort (Provence), Sous Tournoël (Auvergne) e.t.c.
      
    
    
  
  
• OTHER COUNTRIES
  
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  • Viña Albali : The top brand held by a Spanish legendary success person, Mr. Felix SOLIS.
    
  • Quinta do Noval : Ranked as No. 1 Port wine producer
    
  • Iron Horse Vineyards : Sonoma (California) Winery
    
  
  

and many other wineries

4) Strategic Base : Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Hiroshima, Fukuoka and our retail shop, “Marché de Vin Ginza”and "Marché de Vin Tressa Yokohama".

5) Employees : 25 persons

6) Overseas Branch Office : 1 office of Toyota Tsusho Corporation in Santiago, and we have our Toyota Tsusho Foods branch office at Paris since April, 2000 as a key base in Europe.

7) Our Customers : We are doing business with as many as 800-1,000 acounts of customers in total, major national liquor shops, wholesalers specialized in liquors, major national department stores, major super markets, major hotels & restaurants, national theme parks, mail order service companies, airline catering service, etc., in all kind of business fields.

History of Tomen Foods Co.,Ltd.

Originally established as an import agent of “Johnny Walker” in the name of Tomen Corp., however, in the early eighties, the role as the import agent was getting declined gradually. Faced with such a turning point, we selected the import of wines as alternative core business in future.
In 1995, we took over the wine business from “Ginza Mitsumi”, who had been a strong sales partner for Tomen Corp., and resulted in integration with the former Tomen Foods Co., Ltd, and finally built up our present business organization.
In April 1997, the wine & spirits business was wholly transferred from Tomen Corp. to the former Tomen Foods Co., Ltd.,, which allowed us to make a direct negotiation with overseas suppliers, to work out business policies, to make a purchase, to implement sales promotion and to sell wines in domestic markets, that is, which organized integrated functions from development of new products to sales.
Since then, over twenty years, we have expanded our wine business steadily with expansion of whole wine & spirits market in Japan. Now, we created a nation wide sales network, which enables us to do business with major customers in every domain of liquor business.
From daily wines to the most prestigious wines, we have supplied a wide range quality wines and developed owing to valuable support by numbers of excellent customers.

Outstanding Features of Our Wine Business

“Small yet high functional expert group specialized in sales of only quality bottled wines”
→ (Small but excellent key company)
We are handling only high quality wines throughout the world, including top Domaine Bourgogne wines in France and top winery in Chile. Making full use of direct information from each overseas supplier, our expert sales persons can explain properly about the fine quality wine and the values. We continue to aim for not only the scale of business but also improving the quality of business, such as handling items, the knowledge of sales persons, the dealing customers, etc.

The Future of Our Wine Business

We have gone on with the establishment of the distribution system step by step up to date with objective
The policies on product development, pricing and sales promotion according to the characteristic of each wine, yet there remains a number of things.